Character Details
| market | Ascii: 21890 | w258 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 市 | shì | sheuh | 4 | 亠 (lid) + 巾 (cloth) → city; market | 市 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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In ancient China, a banner was hung on a flagpole to mark a market place. Good way to mark it! | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
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| - I saw you in the supermarket just now | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 49 - 亠 | tóu | head | lid | top cover stroke | 京 亡 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 亠 (lid) + 巾 (cloth) → city; market | 巾 (semantic origin) | 亠 (phonetic) | phonetic from 亠 | ||||||||